Sunday, February 02, 2020

Followup and TKC FACT CHECK from "news" we considered yesterday . . . Turns out the local Democratic Party leader might be just a bit too sentimental and just as susceptible to memes as the rest of us:

On Thursday, former Missouri Secretary of State Jason Kander shared a heartwarming story on Twitter about Kansas City Chiefs quarterback Patrick Mahomes. I heard a story recently that highlights what's special about #ChiefsKingdom and about our quarterback. A few weeks back, @PatrickMahomes and his girlfriend @brittanylynne8 were having dinner at a pizza place near their Read more...

And so we lament . . .

In this mostly HARMLESS YET REVEALING Twitter incident, Jason Kander sharing fake news in support of the Kansas City Chiefs reminds us why social media crackdowns are flawed and how even highly educated and intelligent people believe things that simply aren't accurate.

Elizabeth Warren's plan to fight disinformation online isn't going to stop your friends from tweeting that pee is stored in the balls, even though some people on Twitter are worried that it might. But her plan is still worrying. The reason why a lot of the internet can legally function is due to Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act.

Could artists who use Photoshop be targeted by Instagram's new fake news screeners? The social-media platform rolled out an algorithm to detect fake news last May, but it appears to be getting triggered by digitally manipulated artworks as well.

Rob Schneider is standing up for free speech. The funnyman responded to a series of tweets sent by Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., on Wednesday in which the presidential hopeful urged big tech companies to "fight the spread of false information that disempowers voters and undermines democracy. "The stakes of this election are too high.

And to think people would vote for Kander. How flipping sick. Mahomes is to busy supporting his anti American team mates and the Nazi NFL who show their hatred for the country before they are handed millions of dollars.

9:57 the lies the dimwits have spread about Trump for well over three years now, those lies? Meanwhile deep in the bowels of justice, shifty schiff, paloosie and chuckle boi are and will continue to hassle America’s President with lies and false information until the day he leaves office..... in January 2025!